On Dec 9, 6:06 pm, "johnny@." <johnny@.> wrote:
> Sunday, December 9, 2007 1:28 PM
>
> By: Tom Squitieri Article Font Size
>
> The incidence of a Somali meat packer in Kansas who died from
> tuberculosis has officials calling for better health screening for the
> waves of unskilled immigrant workers flooding smaller American communities.
>
> In the wake of the January death at a Tyson Foods plant in Emporia,
> Kan., public health officials found 160 cases of latent TB among the
> facility's 500 Somali workers, according to the Topeka Capital-Journal.
>
> Local officials say the case represents only a small part of the growing
> problem of foreign-born, unassimilated communities with high rates of
> communicable diseases such as TB and HIV. Many say they need help from
> Washington, which has been silent on the issue for too long.
>
> "We have not really gotten Congress to engage, which I would like to see
> occur," Peggy Mast, an 11-year Republican state representative from
> Kansas whose district includes Emporia, tells Newsmax. "I have talked
> with some of the offices and they think it is more of a state issue . . ."
>
> The U.S. government has agreed to resettle more than 12,000 Somalis who
> fled their war-torn country in the past decade. Many have been living in
> refugee camps in Kenya prior to coming to America.
>
> Mandatory health screenings are frequently put off for several months
> after the immigrants' arrival. Those who blend into the secretive,
> tight-knit Somali community often do not resurface to be tested for
> communicable disease, officials complain.
>
> http://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/imm...ns_/2007/12/09...
>
> Doesn't it make you wonder why our government is putting the health of
> American citizens at risk, by not checking these people for communicable
> diseases, before they are released into the general population? They
> are even allowed to get jobs processing our food.
>
> I also wonder why Tyson Foods didn't require these people to get a
> physical before they were hired.

Deport all illegal aliens. Jail those who knowingly employ illegal
aliens.
Does anyone still support the worthless government in Washington, DC?

greg

http://www.wvwnews.net/ Western Voices World News

"greg3347" > wrote in message
...
> On Dec 9, 6:06 pm, "johnny@." <johnny@.> wrote:
>> Sunday, December 9, 2007 1:28 PM
>>
>> By: Tom Squitieri Article Font Size
>>
>> The incidence of a Somali meat packer in Kansas who died from
>> tuberculosis has officials calling for better health screening for the
>> waves of unskilled immigrant workers flooding smaller American
>> communities.
>>
>> In the wake of the January death at a Tyson Foods plant in Emporia,
>> Kan., public health officials found 160 cases of latent TB among the
>> facility's 500 Somali workers, according to the Topeka Capital-Journal.
>>
>> Local officials say the case represents only a small part of the growing
>> problem of foreign-born, unassimilated communities with high rates of
>> communicable diseases such as TB and HIV. Many say they need help from
>> Washington, which has been silent on the issue for too long.
>>
>> "We have not really gotten Congress to engage, which I would like to see
>> occur," Peggy Mast, an 11-year Republican state representative from
>> Kansas whose district includes Emporia, tells Newsmax. "I have talked
>> with some of the offices and they think it is more of a state issue . .
>> ."
>>
>> The U.S. government has agreed to resettle more than 12,000 Somalis who
>> fled their war-torn country in the past decade. Many have been living in
>> refugee camps in Kenya prior to coming to America.
>>
>> Mandatory health screenings are frequently put off for several months
>> after the immigrants' arrival. Those who blend into the secretive,
>> tight-knit Somali community often do not resurface to be tested for
>> communicable disease, officials complain.
>>
>> http://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/imm...ns_/2007/12/09...
>>
>> Doesn't it make you wonder why our government is putting the health of
>> American citizens at risk, by not checking these people for communicable
>> diseases, before they are released into the general population? They
>> are even allowed to get jobs processing our food.
>>
>> I also wonder why Tyson Foods didn't require these people to get a
>> physical before they were hired.
>
> Deport all illegal aliens. Jail those who knowingly employ illegal
> aliens.
> Does anyone still support the worthless government in Washington, DC?

Substitute "criminal", for worthless.

On Dec 10, 7:48 am, greg3347 > wrote:

> > I also wonder why Tyson Foods didn't require these people to get a
> > physical before they were hired.
>
> Deport all illegal aliens. Jail those who knowingly employ illegal
> aliens.
> Does anyone still support the worthless government in Washington, DC?

No, I think the first guy was closer; I'm no more anxious to be
infected with TB by an American worker or a legal immigrant than by an
illegal immigrant, thanks. Giving food workers a health check would
seem to be a good idea, no? I had to have one before getting a damn
office job. Of course, it would cost money; which is why illegal
aliens are taking the jobs in the first place, since unemployed
Americans aren't jumping to move down to Arkansas from the northern
cities for those fantastic wages.

Also, I suspect there aren't a lot of people with TB or AIDS walking
across the desert from Mexico to the US. Illegal aliens from Mexico
are, as a whole, much healthier than American citizens, a 'puzzling'
fact that's been well known for years and the subject of many
published studies.

"California's Latinas, the women most likely to be poor and lack
health Insurance, have an infant mortality 10% lower than Anglo women
and 50% lower than African American women. ... In fact, California's
Asian and Latin populations have lower overall death rates, a medical
measure of a group's health, than do Anglos and African Americans
according to a Blue Cross-sponsored study. ... To be sure, the two
groups have weaknesses in their health profiles. Latinos, for
instance, die disproportionately of cirrhosis and diabetes. Asians
have higher rate of tuberculosis than any other group in California.
Overall, however the two are the only groups in the States
who have met the major population health goals set for the year 2000
by the state Department of Health Services."
http://www.cesla.med.ucla.edu/oped/12-17-95.htm (which is not there
any more)

This is despite having a lower probability of having health insurance,
and a healthy fear of authority which makes them avoid contact with
doctors and hospitals as long as they can, eliminating preventive
care, checkups, early screening for diseases, etc.